If you were lucky enough to grow up in the New York City school system, you more likely than not came across the story of Claudia and Jamie Kincaid in the children’s classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, in which the two young children, yearning to leave their self-described dull Connecticut
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to call a snap election for 29 November came on the back of a parliamentary defeat. On Friday, the raft of measures he had presented to congress aimed at improving conditions for tenants and trying to address the problem of soaring rentals was narrowly rejected, as parties on the
Zac Owen, a 31-year-old brand strategist and high school football coach in the hotly contested swing state of Michigan, said that it’s normal to drive two to four hours to get somewhere else in the state. The cost of those long commutes is top of mind for Owen and other voters as the country heads
Thousands of people are continuing protests across Spain, after Congress rejected a series of measures aimed at tackling the country’s housing crisis. Lawmakers voted on two decree-laws presented by government in response to nationwide protests that followed the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from her home. Abascal was evicted after she was unable to pay
The legislation put forward in Congress on Friday was divided into two separate decrees. The first decree included the suspension of evictions of vulnerable tenants until 2030, a two-year extension to rental leases due to expire before 2028, tax increases for tourist apartments, and a restriction on the purchase of residential properties by so-called “vulture
The Sindicato de Inquilinas (Tenants’ Union) activist association which has been co-ordinating protests, announced during the congressional debate that it was abandoning the tent protest in central Madrid. It said it wanted to “take the struggle to all the neighbourhoods, residential blocks and homes of Madrid, wherever there are rental increases, expulsions and abuses each
